Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A squabble; a row; a disturbance: as, to kick up a bobbery.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Low A squabble; a tumult; a commotion; a noisy disturbance.

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  • noun dated A squabble; a tumult; a noisy disturbance.

Etymologies

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Probably an Anglo-Indian form of a Hindi term for "O thou father!" (a disrespectful term of address).

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  • Thus endeth a season of bobbery

    Replete with conspicuous daubery.

    The master of squabbles

    Now gathers the baubles.

    Prepare for a circus of jobbery.

    December 3, 2016